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UNIS Annual Report 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 2 | ANNUAL REPORT 2020 FROM THE DIRECTOR 4 EXCERPT FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS' REPORT 2020 5 STATISTICS 9 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT 2020 10 BALANCE SHEET 31.12.2020 11 ARCTIC BIOLOGY 12 BIOCEED 19 ARCTIC GEOLOGY 20 ARCTIC GEOPHYSICS 26 ARCTIC TECHNOLOGY 32 ARCTIC SAFETY CENTRE 38 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS 2020 40 Front page | May 2020: Performing drone fieldwork at Fridtjovbreen. Photo: Christina Hess. Editor | Eva Therese Jenssen. ANNUAL REPORT 2020 | 3 NY-ÅLESUND LONGYEARBYEN BARENTSBURG SVEA HORNSUND SVALBARD February 2020: Longyearbyen seen from Gruvefjellet. Photo: Sil Schuuring/UNIS. 4 | ANNUAL REPORT 2020 FROM THE DIRECTOR With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 became challenging year for both staff and students. On 12 March all universities in Norway were closed down. UNIS had at that time 180 regular course students. Our main task became to ensure that all of our students would receive their study credits and maintain the planned study progress. The lectures and seminars went digital. Thanks to our skilled staff that quickly adapted to digital learning despite working from home. The exam success rate of 97% speaks for itself. Jøran Moen is managing director of UNIS. Photo: Eva Therese Jenssen/UNIS. meaning that the learning outcomes cannot be achieved All courses at UNIS have a mandatory field component, of environmental and societal consequences of rapid decidedwithout tofieldwork. cancel all Due courses to infection for the controlrest of themeasures year. A it warmingUNIS contribute in the Arctic, significantly and through to the bothunderstanding research and healthwas not adviser possible with to guaranteeparticular classesresponsibility in the field, for infection and UNIS control measures was hired to develop routines for all the UN´s sustainable development goals. work tasks at UNIS, enabling us to maintain the research education we contribute to the knowledge needed to fulfil activity and supervision of higher-level individual students In 2020 three projects particularly motivated to serve local and global societal needs were funded: circumstances, we had 299 individual students at UNIS in • A pan-Arctic project to document Arctic coastal 2020,who were but the in the annual final student stages of production their work. was Despite less than these half ecosystems. of a normal year. • adaptation in the Arctic Our pride is in providing high-quality teaching. We • Risk governance, early warning, and climate change are partner in two different centres of excellences in to deal with thawing of permafrost Develop research-based emergency preparedness tools UNIS will provide the knowledge needed to develop new testeducation, and document one in bioscience the effect (bioCEED) of new learning and the methods. other in and sustainable businesses in Longyearbyen, and to Forgeosciences Norwegian (iEarth). students, Research a period on ofeducation study at enableUNIS is us to support safe and sustainable family living in Longyearbyen. easily accessible and, I would say, a convincing alternative We have focus on further developing two knowledge areas to international exchange programmes. We offer an to support business development in Longyearbyen: Arctic international study environment, all teaching is given in safety and Arctic energy solutions. The Arctic Safety Centre English, and we provide a social, safe, and good student environment. Thorough safety training on arrival enables and training for sustainable and safe development of our students to behave safely in extreme conditions, skills businesses(ASC) has a andparticular in general responsibility life in the Arctic. to develop ASC deliversexpertise that are sought-after by future employers. key data to the snow avalanche forecast programme for Longyearbyen, and also develop innovative tools to The climate is changing more rapidly in the high Arctic monitor and forecast natural hazards with a high market than any other places on earth. UNIS has a particularly favourable location for researching a wide range of climate potential, also outside Svalbard. Renewable Arctic energy and environmental indicators in order to document the climate developing new businesses in Longyearbyen. The idea is solutions is another emerging field with potential for effects on ecosystems and food chains, thawing of permafrost, to develop and test renewable energy solutions for cold erosion and landslides, glacier dynamics, natural gas resources climate and extreme weather conditions. The role of UNIS and leakage through the permafrost, how the glacier melts is to provide Arctic expertise and educate candidates to aid impacts sea ice and fjord systems and the regional climate. new businesses in Longyearbyen to develop and to become Svalbard has also a unique location and serve as the world´s competitive in delivering green energy solutions in a global observation site to explore how the solar wind directly impacts market. on the Earth’s atmosphere. Our scientists are developing research excellence with the mainland universities through I would like to thank the students and all the staff at UNIS, strategic research collaborations. We are partner in the and our collaboration partners, who managed to deliver so Research Centre for Arctic Petroleum Exploration, Birkeland Centre of excellence in Space Science, and the Norwegian are through, we are better prepared than ever to focus on much despite all the Covid-19 constraints. When we finally Centre for Carbon Capture & Storage. We have a stable and further develop the skills needed for a better and safer portfolio of major and minor research projects and in 2020 we life on our planet. had 157 articles published in peer reviewed journals. Jøran Moen Managing director ANNUAL REPORT 2020 | 5 EXCERPT FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS' REPORT 2020 owned limited corporation administered by the Ministry The University Centre in Svalbard AS (UNIS) is a state- provide an educational provision and engage in research of Education and Research. The company’s objective is to Arctic and the special advantages this offers, by using the naturebased on as Svalbard’s a laboratory geographic and arena location for observations in the High and collection and analysis of data. The educational provision shall be at university level and act as a supplement to the tuition offered at the universities on the mainland and form part of an ordinary programme of study leading to March 2020: UNIS and the Svalbard Science Centre. Photo: Sil Schuuring/UNIS. andexaminations the tuition at shall bachelor’s, be given master’s in English. and There PhD level. shall The be a balanceeducational between provision Norwegian shall have and aninternational international students. profile, Through its activities, the company shall contribute to the Arctic Student Welfare Organisation. community development in Longyearbyen and Svalbard • Temporary regulations were adopted that made it in line with the overarching objectives of Norwegian possible to change the form of assessment and grant Svalbard policy. • An “open line” was set up to UNIS via study@unis. no COVID-19 IMPLICATIONS andexemptions the student from groups compulsory on Facebook activities where (fieldwork). the When UNIS was closed on 12 March, there were 180 students could contact student advisers. students here. The staff needed to work from home and • The Student Counselling Centre in Tromsø has a the Svalbard Science Centre remained largely closed for designated psychologist and counsellor who follows two months. up UNIS students and offer consultations via digital solutions. As the facilities for treating sick people in Longyearbyen • Field work for guest students: A review was are extremely limited, seriously ill patients need to be evacuated. Furthermore, local emergency preparedness possible to implement. The goal was that the students requires that any case of infection leads to quarantine or shouldundertaken not experience of what field delays activity in completing was necessary their and isolation for anyone who has interacted with the infected studies. person. For UNIS, this could quickly lead to the entire institution being shut down because of a single case of In addition to the ordinary course evaluation, UNIS sent a infection. Taking care of a large number of students and separate Covid-19 student survey to all course students in staff in quarantine and/or isolation would be demanding June. The survey contained questions about the transition for the local community, as well as for the UNIS staff. to digital teaching, student life and how UNIS handled the crisis. In general, the transition to digital teaching For UNIS, the main objective was to facilitate that all and examinations received favourable feedback, with students had an opportunity to complete the semester and their courses in the best possible way by using came to feedback about student life and how UNIS had handledsome suggestions the situation, for improvements. the responses wereHowever, mixed. when While it students. They experienced psychosocial challenges relateda digital to solution. uncertainty This aboutwas a thedifficult situation time andfor manythe from UNIS and thought that UNIS had done its best in a possible duration, concerns about their family back home many students were pleased with the financial support and the experience of being isolated, among other things. communicated about and handled the situation. difficult situation, others criticised UNIS for the way we The following are among the measures
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